Photos to follow soon but I recently acquired a Volusian with Provincia Dacia reverse that I am having trouble finding an exact reference for. The reverse legend more specifically is "Provin-cia Daci" (no A at the end of Daci) and "AN V" in the exergue. I checked Dane's spreadsheet and I only found one similar but with "AN VI" instead. A google search turned up nothing as well. Hoping someone could lend me a hand here, thanks. Also, were the "Provincia Dacia/Daci" coins also struck in Viminacium like the "Col Vim" type?
Can't help really. I did read somewhere that the letters in the exergue were not to be trusted and were very unreliable. I wish I could remember where I had seen that.
Jango => zup dawg? Hey, congrats on the new pickup ... ummm, Volusian? => sure, here ya go!! Volusian AE Sestertius Date: 252 AD Diameter: 27.3 mm Weight: 13.7 grams Obverse: IMP CAE C VIB VOLVSIANO AVG - Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Volusian Reverse: IVNONI MARTIALI - Juno, holding patera and scepter, seated in domed distyle temple References: RIC 253a
That definitely makes sense. I guess it wouldn't be wrong to attribute my coin with the "Provincia Daci"/"AN VI" reference but put a note about it being "AN V" in my records. For me? Ya shouldn't have my Canadian friend! My address is.....
There are two examples for AN V shown here with their Pick numbers: http://www.viminacium.nl/English Dacia Volusianus.html The difference is the reverse legend - with break and without. If yours spells DACI rather than DACIA, it might be an engraver's error?
You really have my curiosity raised to an unendurable level now LOL ...I'm dying to see what you have.... My only Volusion is not from Moesia Superior, but a Silver Antoninianus from the Rome mint:
I don't have the reference, so don't know if that variant/error has its own number. On the question of where they were struck, this page has some good general info: http://www.viminacium.nl/English Introductie Dacia.html
Nice Volusian. I am a sucker for shiny antoninianii! Yours is light years better than my Volusian; it is a very rough-looking bronze. Only got it since it was an emperor and a mint I didn't have and I was able to get it for like $5.
I'm getting impatient to see your new coin VK, but in the meantime here is one of mine: VOLUSIAN AE25 OBVERSE: AVTOK K G AFIN GAL OVEND OVOLOCCIANOC CEB, radiate and draped bust right REVERSE: ANTIOXEWN MHTRO KOLWN D-e, SC below, Tyche seated facing within tetrastyle temple, the river-god Orontes swimming beneath her, ram leaping right above Struck at Syria-Antioch, 251-253 AD 17.1g, 30mm SNGCop 295
Well, Martin, that's a great AE25 of Volusian!!!! Seriously, Bing, That's an absolute beauty!!! I WANT IT!!!!
It really isn't much appearance-wise but I shall nevertheless grace you all with the coin photos soon.
